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Stephanie A.

@smdalbrig.bsky.social
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Born and raised in Newport News now in the DMV. Denbigh High School, UVA, and Richmond Law. Fair to middling tennis player and lover of dogs.

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Brass & Wool Books @brassnwool.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Last Day to get the Preorder price for the new Luke Cage release! brassnwool.com/product/trut... #marvelbooks #disneybooks #bookrec #lookandsee 💙📚 #blackbookshelf #bookrec #blackbooksky #readingcommunity #newbookrelease @blacktopkid.bsky.social
https://brassnwool.com/product/truth-to-power-a-luke-cage-marvel-crime-novel/
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/09/2026
What you should know is… a lie don’t care who tell it www.complex.com/v/worst-take...
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Babyface Fans Need to Hear This Bomani Jones Take | Complex Bets Presents Worst Take
Babyface is one of the great producers, but an overrated ...
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Alright, gonna ask a question aloud into the void here and I already regret doing so but: For women especially, what’s the first age you recall being sexualized, by men? I’m a trans dude but I’ll answer (in brief, writing a longer thing on this): I was about 7 …
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026
AI founders: look what we did! Necromancy with your favorite author! Aren’t you all excited?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A provocative article in Rolling Stone titled "What some folks really mean when they claim to have never done the Humpty Hump."
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@AmySilverberg

One time a writer friend of mine got too drunk and sobbed bc she said there were too many books in the world she wouldn’t have time to read, and this guy down the bar said, ladies—he isn’t worth it and my friend yelled IM CRYING ABOUT BOOKS and that shut the guy up
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Michael Mishak @mjmishak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Online sportsbooks say they do not want business from problem gamblers. So @propublica.org's Jake Pearson spent 10 weeks on DraftKings testing how the company would react to someone displaying all the hallmarks of a compulsive bettor. Spoiler: It made him a VIP. www.propublica.org/article/draf...
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
In a scathing dissent, Justice Jackson, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, wrote: "The Court focuses only on the harms the Government will purportedly suffer absent a stay, disregarding the harms that the modified SAVE system has caused, and will likely continue to cause, to lawful voters."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
some pilots are part of the furry community
An illustration of the Ralph Lauren Polo bear dressed up as a pilot and standing in front of a red airplane. The text says "Polo Aviator by Ralph Lauren."
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026
Parker Molloy just published this thoughtful piece tonight. It's worth a read imo. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
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Trainwreck
Old habits, especially embarrassing ones, die hard.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.
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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reminder into the void here that @maris.bsky.social and I coedited a whole project for @literaryhub.bsky.social subtweeting: Pamela Paul’s tenure at the NYTBR … lithub.com/what-was-los...
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What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022
“Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
people like bret stephens simply cant comprehend of a world where straight white men like them aren't the main character of every facet of human existence all the time. its fucking exhausting. they have to be the guy in the movies, in academia, in books, in music. every fucking thing has to be them
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Straight white males have had their voice taken away, I say, in my regular New York Times opinion column
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 22/09/2026
As i was grabbing a Sudachi Lime redbull ... i felt the hairs on the back of my neck rise... and the a voice i hoped to never hear again say "Got you afraid of wearing yellow eh?"
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carmenlynn.bsky.social @carmenlynn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Flock seems to be going out of business. They’re offering buyouts, and there are rumors that they are going sell the company in pieces.
futurism.com
Signs of Crisis at Flock as It Offers Employees Buyouts to Quit and Get Off Payroll
As backlash against the company shows no signs of dying down, Flock is enticing employees to quit with generous severance packages.
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Activate Virginia @activateva.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"In response to “hundreds of emails” sent by residents to their offices in recent weeks, county supervisors... voted unanimously yesterday (Tuesday) to pause the installation of new Flock cameras by the Fairfax County Police Department."
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Fairfax County board suspends Flock camera installations, as criticism grows in N. Va. | FFXnow
Amid a growing national backlash to automated license plate readers (ALPRs), Fairfax County leaders want to take a closer look at their partnership with Flock Safety, the country's leading provider of...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They are all terrible, but Stephen Miller is determined to be impressively evil.
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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DCMediaGroup @dcmediagroup.us · 19/09/2026
At the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1000s have linked hands and are demanding “Hands Off the Arts” while surrounding the center.
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
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Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children (Gift Article)
A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
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WTVR CBS 6 News Richmond, Virginia @cbs6-richmond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Colonial Parkway Murders are a series of notorious murders that sat unsolved for decades until investigators began announcing updates in 2024.
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FBI officially links disappearances of 2 more Colonial Parkway victims to Alan Wade Wilmer Sr.
The Colonial Parkway Murders are a series of notorious murders that sat unsolved for decades until investigators began announcing updates in 2024.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rawson has responded to my @talkingpointsmemo.com story. He neither denies or apologizes for: -condoning slavery -calling for gay people to be executed -advocating lynching -marching w/ Nazis in Charlottesville -his involvement w/ League of the South, a neo-Confederate/southern secessionist group
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They’re going to claim that trace amounts of birth control in drinking water is a public health risk, and then make birth control pills illegal, aren’t they?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who derides rules of engagement as “woke,” gutted the civilian harm reduction program over the objections of top military commanders, ProPublica previously reported. Staff plunged from nearly 200 to about two dozen.
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Empty Seat: U.S. Absent as Western Powers Meet on Wartime Protections for Civilians
A multinational group meets this week at NATO headquarters in Belgium to discuss protections for civilians during combat. Even though the U.S. co-founded this effort, no American delegation will be in...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 14/09/2026
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives marched alongside neo-Nazis at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new Talking Points Memo investigation can reveal.
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
Not a typo. Four thousand.
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Police Investigator Accused of Making Over 4,000 Illegal Flock Camera Searches
An employee for the Albany County Sheriff's Office was caught conducting over 4,000 unauthorized queries on five people.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This idea applies to other things. If you wear a big sun hat, a polo shirt, and a pair of baggy cargo shorts to the zoo, you can tell people wholly fabricated, rather incorrect information about the animals and they will believe you.
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
More than 100 people died in Virginia prisons last year. Story via Radio IQ.
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More than 100 people died in Virginia prisons last year
Recommendations in the report included the improvement of “living conditions for long-term incarceration,” health education, the expansion of addiction treatment services and addressing staffing issue...
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
one of the things Joyce Beatty is seeking to uncover in her lawsuit currently is that they were basically already bankrupt before they even took his hame off and are trying to hide it
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Stephanie A. @smdalbrig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m in Gloucester visiting my folks and this is a thing I found in the store today. I texted it to my 18yo son and said yet another example or my upbringing in Tidewater VA being so much different than his growing up in Northern VA 😂.
Photo of cans of Campbell’s Chunky Soup brand of PBR branded Beer Cheese soup with potatoes and chorizo.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm a very non casual tennis fan and I need this so badly
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Finish the name of this historical event: The Stonewall ______ A: Sit-in B: Petition C: Cuddle Puddle D: Other
Senator Dr. Joh... @john... • 3h
The gay rights message was:
"Look, we're just regular people who want to love who we love. What's so wrong with that?"
The trans rights message is:
"Support us or go fuck
yourself you bigoted asshole."
Guess which one is more persuasive.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
It's always a good time to share this.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My #Smithsonian experience
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Remember Romney saying Dem voters were just lazy dependents who didn’t want to work and just wanted “gifts?” bsky.app/profile/apne...
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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I know our nation is in a dumpster fire set by living bag of orange shit weasels in a suit but there are times when you find yourself in a nice bar or at a nice restaurant with a good view or around a fire with ppl who knew you when u had pimples and for a minute Things Are GOOD. Hold on to that
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.
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Stephanie A. @smdalbrig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Coco!!!! Third set coming.
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Homer Simpson Prier
Alt: Homer from The Simpsons clasping his hands, looking worried, and saying “please, please, please”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here come the bans on Canadian products. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Frog,” asked Toad, “did this really happen?” “Maybe it did, and maybe it didn’t,” said Frog.
Toad questions Frog about the veracity of his ghost story, an animated look on his face.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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